Show HN: Thoughts on our Hackathon Project?
Doing a hackathon right now and we'd really like some feedback on the idea/design/anything.
The idea is called Wingman. WingMan helps people set up amazing dates, and provides on-demand support and situational advice via text.
(Zach) Design: http://imgur.com/a/CcKyG
Really just as minimal as possible. I want most of the customer facing UX through text. Anonymity is also important so we're not asking for names just location and phone number.
(Bobby) Tech: RoR stack, chose it because wanted to learn RoR a bit better. This invisible app uses Twilio, of course to send users messages and to route messages to our operators. I just finished writing an automated text distribution system that matches operators with user. Currently, it's routes messages to operators who are online and who have the least number of messages. However, I currently improving the matching process to match the operators to the users depending on location, likes, and lifestyles.
I'm testing out Twilio's new CoPilot feature for Geo-Matching numbers in order to give a number to text that's the same area code as the number it's texting from and the sticky sender function that makes sure all texts are sent from the same number to the user instead of multiple numbers.
I'm also wanting to add some degree of NLP to help the operators.
If you guys like it please sign up!